Historic swearing in. Former mayor Pete Buttigieg becomes the first openly gay Cabinet Secretary to be confirmed by the senate. New Video Tonight of three officers involved in George Floyds death forcibly arresting an innocent man weeks earlier, raising questions about previous patterns of behavior. Women and the pandemic. What you need to know about Misinformation Being spread about Covid Vaccines and fertility. Also tonight, why this charttopping Country Music stars songs will no longer be played on major Radio Stations. And, gridiron girls. The trailblazing women that will make history during super bowl 55 on cbs. This is the Cbs Evening News with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin tonight with that new astrazeneca vaccine, which now appears to not only prevent people from getting severely ill from coronavirus it may also slow the spread of it. Researchers say thats
Telling his party to stick together, underscoring the agency, the cdc is out with a new forecast projecting that the United States will see as many as 534,000 covid19 deaths by the end of this month. Also this hour, exclusive interview with the new Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, first immigrant to head the agency at a critical time for our country. First, straight to capitol hill where theres Breaking News. Manu raju is joining us. This key meeting thats under way could shape the future of the Republican Party. Update us on the very latest. Reporter Libehind Closed Dos this meeting is taking place, efforts by a number of members in the republican conference to impeach donald trump, including the number three republican, liz cheney, who voted to impeach donald trump on the charge of inciting that dead ly january 6h riot that occurred here on capitol hill. She addressed her conference as she has faced a backlash and push to oust her from the leadership spot. She made it
Up for an eighth straight day. The mega cap tech names making the new milestones josh, the big five as we say amazon, apple, facebook, alphabet, microsoft all but alphabet hitting the new highs today crossing 6 trillion as you flag end market cap for the first time ever. They, amazingly, are now equal to the next 24 largest s p 500 stocks combined. You flag that. Yeah. What do you make of it . Yeah, so my research. We put this up last night. Just incredible when you think about the companies that make up that next 24 were not talking about small potatoes were talking about jpmorgan which is a 300 million cap and pepsi, coke, mcdonalds. Its really wild and these stocks now are just going parabolic. I think i want to maketwo points very quickly. The first is that this is not unprecedented. In the mid 1960s just two stocks General Motors and at t made up 14. 5 of the total market cap of the s p 500. And the top ten names in the mid 60s made up about 50 of the market cap so, we have seen t
Plus his new shocking comments about cuba. Mondays february 24th fbn a. M. Start right now. All right were with off welcome to fbn am good morning to you at home im Lauren Simonetti had. Busy monday good morning everyone im cheryl casone. Lets get right to it here money this morning with humbling more than 2. 4 across the board as dow tanking 712 point 2. 4 and s p 500 down, and nasdaq is down 3 this morning down 279. Were seeing big moves in oil right now, theres a lot of pressure on crude this morning this is over concerns about a global chick slowdown think about Oil Consumption in china in particular right now were seeing oil down more than three and a half percent opposite story for gold, though, seeing that that is right to safety and looking for a safe place to go up two and a quarter percent. Seeing that with a tenure treasury yield as well tumbled to lowest level since july 2016, very, very close it all time hoes as concerns about Global Economic impact of the virus driving in
Independents 202 7488002. You can also send us a text at 202 7488003. Please include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on social media. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. Here are the headlines on john beings statement about win willing to testify. The story noting that bolton rejected demands as the administration delayed military aid. Here is john boltons statement from yesterday. During the impeachment controversy i have tried to meet my obligation as a citizen and former National Security adviser. Since my testimony is an issue i have tried to resolve the issue as best i could. Based on careful consideration and study i have decided that its the Senate Issues a subpoena i am prepared to testify to testify. A few hours ago the momentum for uncovering the truth in the senate trial gathered more momentum. One of the key witnesses i have bolton,r, mr. John former National Security advisor to President Trump correctly acknowledged that he needs to comply with a Senate